Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab
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NASA has also released new images:
NASA Reveals Webb Telescope’s First Images of Unseen Universe
Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí.
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@NTA it's really cool. But SpaceX are showing how expensive this low risk appraoch is. If Starship was allowed to be launched, there would probably be literal tons of gear in orbit by now, and heading off to the moon.
Reusable rockets have reset space expectations, in a great way.
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@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@NTA it's really cool. But SpaceX are showing how expensive this low risk appraoch is. If Starship was allowed to be launched, there would probably be literal tons of gear in orbit by now, and heading off to the moon.
Reusable rockets have reset space expectations, in a great way.
A billion a launch for that rocket right? Criminal.
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@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@NTA it's really cool. But SpaceX are showing how expensive this low risk appraoch is. If Starship was allowed to be launched, there would probably be literal tons of gear in orbit by now, and heading off to the moon.
Reusable rockets have reset space expectations, in a great way.
A billion a launch for that rocket right? Criminal.
political, not criminal, right?
Fund the right states.
Avoid failure at all costs (even though that throws time and ironically risk into the programme) -
@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@NTA it's really cool. But SpaceX are showing how expensive this low risk appraoch is. If Starship was allowed to be launched, there would probably be literal tons of gear in orbit by now, and heading off to the moon.
Reusable rockets have reset space expectations, in a great way.
A billion a launch for that rocket right? Criminal.
political, not criminal, right?
There's a difference?
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@NTA I hope it wasn't one of those cases where a faulty 50c part halted a multi-million dollar liftoff!! But I'd rather a faulty part than a big engine issue.
lol what are the chances that sensor actually costs a shit-ton
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@Paekakboyz said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@NTA I hope it wasn't one of those cases where a faulty 50c part halted a multi-million dollar liftoff!! But I'd rather a faulty part than a big engine issue.
lol what are the chances that sensor actually costs a shit-ton
Probably cost a couple of bucks but NASA pay thousands
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Given the Artemis uses an enhanced version of a design first flight certified over four decades ago, and that temperature was the issue behind he integrity of the Challenger's O-rings, I can understand NASA's reticence. It's expensive because of the engineering required to operate in such extremes.
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@antipodean oh shit, yeah no wonder they were erring on the side of caution. What a cool but kinda nightmare fuel job to be working on a gnarly project like this.
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@Paekakboyz I can tell you from personal experience; if the sensor was made by Audi, it'll cost at least two shit-tons
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@Paekakboyz said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@antipodean oh shit, yeah no wonder they were erring on the side of caution. What a cool but kinda nightmare fuel job to be working on a gnarly project like this.
But fuck me if it blows up on the pad it'll be awesome to see.
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@dogmeat said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@Paekakboyz I can tell you from personal experience; if the sensor was made by Audi, it'll cost at least two shit-tons
Well the whole American rocket industry was heavily reliant on Ze Germans in the early days, so....
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NASA gets Voyager 1 talking again — and discovers a new mystery
14.6 billion miles from one another, NASA engineers have found and fixed a computer glitch that had caused Voyager 1 to transmit garbled telemetry data since May.
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Artemis 1: Nasa’s moon rocket springs hazardous leak ahead of launch
Fuel leak comes after Nasa fixed an engine issue that postponed the original launch attempt five days earlier
Nasa was poised to make a second attempt to fly its pioneering Artemis 1 moon rocket on Saturday afternoon after the US space agency declared it had identified and fixed an engine issue that caused the postponement of the original launch attempt five days earlier. But the new moon rocket sprang another hazardous leak Saturday, as the launch team began fueling it for liftoff on a test flight that must go well before astronauts climb aboard. As the sun rose, an over-pressure alarm sounded and the tanking operation was briefly halted, but no damage occurred and the effort resumed, Nasa’s Launch Control reported. But minutes later, hydrogen fuel began leaking from the engine section at the bottom of the rocket. Nasa halted the operation, while engineers scrambled to plug what was believed to be a gap around a seal.
